That day
Saturday, 9 December 2006
The verse
“Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.”Romans 12:2 · WEB
From the tradition
“The oftener we are mown down by you, the more in number we grow; the blood of Christians is seed.”
Tertullian of Carthage · Apology, Chapter 50
In the words of a public-domain translation (tr. S. Thelwall, Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 3, ed. Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson, rev. A. Cleveland Coxe (1885)), checked against the source edition.